12-Hour Shift: At the hospital, Regina tries putting on a set of scrubs to pass herself off as a nurse, except her high heels (and later, her shoeless feet) make her stick out among the others, who wear more practical footwear.
In A Loud House Christmas the disguises Lincoln and Clyde wear to Sunset Canyon when they sabotage Luan's gig count as this. Pop Pop and Nana Gayle lampshade this trope when they see Lincoln and Clyde and ask if they know them.
Parodied in the Telugu film Alluda Majaka where the main character, Sitaramudu, puts on a wig (which is an exact copy of his hair) and a moustache (that is an exact copy of his own), doesn't change the way he speaks at all and nobody recognises him.
American Animals: Members of The Caper originally dress in elaborate disguises as old men, believing that they'll be Beneath Suspicion, but the first try is aborted. On the second try, they discard the disguises and simply have the pointmen wear suits. In reality, the pointmen also wore knit caps.
In Attack of the Killer Tomatoes!, a guy tries infiltrating the Tomatoes at a campfire wearing a tomato suit; he actually fools them until he blows his cover by asking for some ketchup.
One of his previous disguises was arguably worse: he was disguised as Adolf Hitler... in The '80s. And was a black man.
Alfred's "disguise" was to cover the top half of his face with a black cloth with eye-holes, (like 50's Disney Zorro). He was still wearing his suit and put his glasses on over the mask.
On the other flipper, when The Penguin tries a more elaborate getup, the Dynamic Duo aren't fooled one bit. Then again, his short-term goal is to be taken to the BatCave.
Done in the old WWII propaganda film Beasts Trom The East. The Japanese soldiers are disguised as trees throughout, even when moving or shooting.
Parodied in Bill by King Philip II of Spain who disguises himself by wearing a false moustache (over his real one), everyone is fooled and shocked to see it's him when he removes it.
In The Candy Snatchers, the titular kidnappers wear nose glasses when they abduct Candy.
Played With in Central Intelligence. Bob Stone masquerades as a therapist to get Calvin and his wife apart. It's obvious to both the audience and Calvin that it's really Bob. Calvin's wife, however, is completely fooled by the disguise, even after seeing Calvin freak out from it.
In Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, the Child Catcher disguises himself as a candy vendor by putting a coat on over his normal clothes. Yeah, that coat made him look completely different. But said coat was enough to fool Jeremy and Jemima, who had seen him earlier.
Likewise, the two spies' various outfits.
In the Live-Action Adaptation of Cutey Honey, the title character had several costumes/disguises, but she invariably had bright red hair. Imagine it; you're in a Tokyo train station full of girls with black hair, and you're trying to find Cutey Honey. How long would it take you to spot the redhead?
Descendant of the Sun, a knockoff of the Christopher Reeve Superman films, follows the trope with the Superman Substitute hero Shue Sang, who can blend with civilians while assuming a superhero identity simply by changing clothes. He doesn't even have glasses, and yet managed to fool everyone.
In the Disney Live-Action RemakesCinderella (2015) and Aladdin (2019), the titular characters explicitly question whether they will be recognised after they are given new clothes by the Fairy Godmother and the Genie respectively, and are assured that the magic includes a subtle effect that prevents anyone else recognising them directly (Kit, Cinderella's prince, still recognizes her, but it's suggested that the spell was just to stop her family recognizing Ella and driving her away). Although they are eventually recognized anyway — Ella by Lady Tremaine, Aladdin by Jasmine and Jafar — it is via deduction based on non-visual clues, making the disguises a non-factor.
The titular character in Corky Romano's skinhead outfit screams "I'm trying to pretend to be a skinhead" His bald head wig his so obvious and he as a fake "No menorahs" tattoo that state how he's trying way to hard. He also can't help but try and play the role as a Card-Carrying Villain:
Corky: "Wanna go commit some hate crimes?"
A bafflingly straight example in The Dark Knight. When dressed up as a nurse, all the Joker has covering his face is a small surgeon mask (a surgeon hat isn't even included), yet it somehow keeps Harvey from recognizing him until he takes it off. Perhaps Harvey was on some really strong painkillers after getting his Two-Face burns?
From the film, The Devil and Miss Jones, Joe puts on a fake mustache and a hat and thinks nobody will recognize him as the leader of the rebelling workforce. It doesn't work.
In The Draughtsman's Contract, Mr. Talmann and his friends confront Mr. Neville wearing masks. Mr. Neville identifies them so quickly they may as well not even have bothered, and points out to Mr. Talmann that his accent gives him away.
In Enchanted, Nathaniel is tasked by Queen Narissa into tracking down and killing Giselle with some poisoned apples. This results in a number of extremely poor disguises, especially because Nathaniel has a very distinctive appearance as a short, rotund, snaggle-toothed man — and furthermore, Giselle interacted with him in Andalasia, yet fails to recognize him in every instance. Somehow, not even the more down-to-earth Robert notices anything amiss.
Nathaniel first talks to Narissa in a restaurant's kitchen, where he goes completely unnoticed because he is wearing a chef's hat as his only disguise element. He's still wearing his medieval "fairy tale" outfit, but no one else in the extremely crowded kitchen thinks him out of place besides a single dishwasher, and only then because Nathaniel is talking into a pot of soup that Narissa uses to communicate.
Nathaniel's initial attempt to poison Giselle has him disguise himself as a sidewalk vendor in Central Park. He wears a green baseball cap and apron while speaking in a ridiculously exaggerated German accent ("YOU WANT JUICY-SWEET CARAMEL APPLE MAYBE?").
The second poisoning attempt occurs in a fancy restaurant, where Nathaniel dons a white waiter's uniform, black wig, mustache, and equally ludicrous Italian accent to deliver an apple martini.
In Friday the 13th Part 2, Ginny convinces Jason she's his mother by simply putting on Pamela's sweater and acting like her. Jason eventually does see through the ruse, but only after spotting his real mother's severed head.
Played with in the first of The Green Hornet movie serials. One episode has the gangsters trying to steal an election, and they use the classic "wear disguise and vote multiple times" method. Some of the reporters watching the polls see through the rudimentary disguises. However, it's not clear if the disguises were paper-thin to make things easier for the audience or an attempt by the gangsters to give the poll workers Plausible Deniability — the gangsters used bribes other times ....
In a later episode of that serial, we learn that Kato's costume as the Green Hornet's chauffeur is exactly what he wears as Britt Reid's chauffeur, right down to the same driving goggles. No one ever makes the connection. To be fair, Reid normally drives himself unless he's going someplace fancy, in which case paying attention to the servants is Not Done.
Played with in Green Lantern (2011). Hal Jordan's Domino Mask is supposed to protect his identity. After saving Carol Ferris' life, Hal appears at her window in his Green Lantern persona in an attempt to "get the girl". Carol almost immediately sees through his disguise, pointing out that she had known him all her life and she wasn't dumb enough to not recognize him because she couldn't see his cheekbones.
While fleeing from his pursuers after assassinating Reinhard Heydrich in Hangmen Also Die!, Dr. Svoboda swaps one hat for another, changing nothing else about his outfit.
In A Hard Day's Night, all it takes for Super Famous Beatle Ringo Starr to slip into anonymity as he wanders around London is a cloth cap and an overcoat. The disguise even lasts when he loses the overcoat, so the cloth cap must have special powers. Reaches heights of absurdity when, having been arrested, Ringo insists to the policemen that he's Ringo Starr, but they refuse to believe him — because he's wearing the cloth cap.
A couple of fangirls see through the disguise at one point, forcing Ringo to make a hasty retreat.
Similarly in Help!, the Beatles go to the airport in fake beards and mustaches to avoid being noticed by Cult members.
To be fair, in Help! those were much more elaborate costumes. John even went so far as to stay in a wheelchair to avoid recognition, far from simply wearing a cloth cap.
Hayride 2: Corey grabs a discarded doctor's coat and puts it on to try and get past the police to escape the hospital and help Steven save Amanda from being killed by Ol' Pitchfork. When some police come by, he ducks into a chair and pretends to sleep... it works.
King Henry V in Kenneth Branagh's film on William Shakespeare play Henry V. King Henry dresses himself as an archer and visits his troops during the night before the Battle of Agincourt, using a pretty transparent name "Harry Leroy". Harry is, of course, colloquial from Henry, and while Leroy is a Welsh name, it is also French for le Roi, "king". When one of the archers asks him if he is of Welsh origin, he answers affirmatively; before he became king of England, he was Prince of Wales.
In Heroic Trio, Anita Mui's character wears a small mask that molds to her face so much that it shouldn't really fool her husband. Judge for yourself here◊ and here.◊
In Holmes & Watson, Holmes puts on a false mustache and Watson becomes incapable of recognising him.
Parodied in Hot Shots! Part Deux in a Shout-Out to the film The Guns of Navarone. When intercepted by an Iraqi patrol boat, the heroes pretend (poorly) to be local fishermen. Ramada's disguise consists of a very fake looking mustache. The soldiers don't notice anything amiss until she enters the ladies' room, but even then they assume that the fishermen are just perverts.
House Shark: Frank and Abraham manage to evade the shark by pretending to be furniture. Frank pretends to be a bookshelf by holding up a bunch of books, and Abraham pretends to be a table by getting down on all fours... and it works!
The film version of How the Grinch Stole Christmas! this ugly cave creature puts on a red coat and Santa hat. Boom! He automatically looks "just like Saint Nick."
Partially justified as a way of keeping people from noticing him from a distance (i.e. "a figure on the roof tops in a Santa's hat on Christmas eve must be Santa!") When Cindy Lou approaches him, he tries to keep the tree between them to help keep her from seeing him properly.
Also earlier in the film, when pranking and causing mischief around Whoville earlier in the film, the Grinch dons a brown hooded robe and a creepy grinning rubber mask to pass himself off as a Who. The mask isn't Latex Perfection quality, and his green furry hands and feet are still visible, yet the other Whos barely notice the difference...
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade. Indy, swapping hats with Elsa, poses as a Scottish art collector to trick his way into Castle Brunwald.
In The Legend of Zorro, Zorro's son is unable to recognize his own father's face or voice, while talking to him, because part of Zorro's eyes are covered by his facemask. Zorro tries to further disguise himself by insisting that they speak Spanish. Except it's very likely that Zorro has taught his son Spanish, so it seems pointless.
Parodied in the spoof movie Loaded Weapon 1 with Jigsaw (Tim Curry) in the beginning. He's dressed up as a Wilderness Girl (basically a lawyer-friendly version of the Girl Scouts), but he has a thin beard, is tall, and doesn't make any attempt to disguise his male voice. Somehow, he still manages to gain entrance to York's house despite the horrible disguise.
Looney Tunes: Back in Action: D.J dresses up as one of the Yosemite Sam background dancers to board the stage and talk to Dusty Tails. The clothes barely fit him and he is very tall as opposed to the background dancers being dwarf-sized. Both Daffy and Dusty Tails weren't fooled.
Mostly avoided in The Film OfThe Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King. In the book, Éowyn was able to hide her identity from everyone while she rode with the other Riders, including Merry, who was with her. In the film, there was no way for Éowyn to be disguised in a way that the audience wouldn't know it was her straight away, so while she rode in a helmet that concealed part of her face (which would keep those less familiar with her from realizing who she was, thankfully, in an army of several thousand people from all over the country, she could probably find some unit to hide within that wouldn't know the king's niece on sight), she didn't bother hiding her identity from Merry. (Funnily, out-of-universe, the actors playing the Rohirrim were in similar straits — they couldn't find enough male horseback riders, so a lot of them were women in fake beards.)
The book is a special case. It's implied that the rest of the men she's with know who she really is but are keeping silent. However, it makes no sense that Merry wouldn't be able to determine her true nature, as he spends quite a few days riding with her and it really doesn't make a lot of sense that she'd be able to hide her identify from him that long. If nothing else, how is she heeding the call of nature while they're marching to Gondor in a column?
In the made-for-TV film Love Strikes Twice, at one point Maggie Turner infiltrates a golf club that her current boyfriend and new fiancé is a member of to steal incriminating evidence from her boyfriend’s father. At one point she has a run-in with her boyfriend, and he doesn’t even realise who Maggie is just because she’s wearing a cap and a uniform (although she takes care to keep her head down and turns away so that he doesn’t see her face directly).
In The Major and the Minor, Ginger Rogers' character dresses like a little girl to take a train for half price. The Major falls for it, as do the cadets at his school, but most other people realize that she can't possibly be under twelve, with an actual teenage girl pointing out her distinctly adult features and the fact that she's acting more like she's six than eleven.
The Man with the Golden Gun: James Bond tries to pose as the assassin Francisco Scaramanga and gain information from one of his clients simply by wearing a fake third nipple. Bond thinks this will work, because nobody knows what Scaramanga looks like, and he has always, up to now, dealt with his clients via intermediaries; the third nipple is his only known distinguishing feature. Unbeknownst to Bond, Scaramanga has a new goal in mind and has met with this client personally this time, so the guy isn't fooled, but plays along with Bond for now.
Marvel Cinematic Universe: A frequent Running Gag across the franchise is that the main characters will often do the bare minimum to hide their identities, with the default "disguise" being a baseball cap and sunglasses. Most of the time this is played straight, but it's occasionally lampshaded.
Ant-Man and the Wasp: Due to being fugitives, Scott, Hank and Hope have to try to sneak into a college building to meet an old colleague of Hank's. Their disguise is little more than baseball caps and sunglasses. Scott points out how lame their disguises are. Sure enough, someone did end up seeing through it and called the cops on them.
In Captain America: The Winter Soldier, Cap and Black Widow disguise themselves as civilians in the mall wearing nothing but hoods and hats. Everyone buys it except for a kid.
And after the post-credits, the titular Winter Soldier pulls even less of a disguise wearing a jacket to hide his mechanical arm.
Thor: Ragnarok: Thor's ingenious idea of disguising himself in plain sight is to just throw a blanket over his head. Valkyrie points out that she can still see his face.
Thor: Not when I do this, you can't. [drapes a corner of the blanket over his mouth]
Subverted. When Agent K points Frank out to Agent J, appearing to indicate a weird-looking man at a newsstand, Jay says, "Bad disguise, that guy is definitely an alien." However, as it turns out, Frank is actually the pug dog next to the guy.
Played for laughs at the end of the same film. When Jay tells Weaver that Dennis Rodman is an alien, she says, "Really? Not much of a disguise." (Any NBA fan would get the joke quickly; those not in the know would probably be helped by knowing that Rodman is square in The Tyson Zone.)
The 'men' at the stoning in Monty Python's Life of Brian are all women with fake beards. They keep forgetting to speak in a lower voice and refer to each other as "she" before catching themselves. Ironically, many of the "women" in drag are actually played by (male) members of Monty Python, who often appear as female characters.
In The Muppets (2011), when the Muppets become "Muppet Man", Miss Piggy doesn't notice the head looking like Fozzie with a mustache. After she finds out it's them she says that she can't believe she fell for Muppet Man.
In Muppets Most Wanted, all that Constantine needs to do to disguise himself as Kermit is to put makeup over his mole. While he does look exactly like Kermit otherwise, he barely tries to act like him or hide his accent. Animal noticed immediately because he smelled different, but everyone ignores him.
My Pet Monster: At the end of the movie they take Max to a dog show pretending he's their dog. A blue-furred gorilla/troll thing. And nobody questions it.
Lampshaded in Mystery Men, when the city's resident superhero appeared as his mundane counterpart. There was an argument between two of the titular Mystery Men at one point, in which The Shoveler insisted that they couldn't be the same person because the regular guy wore glasses — and the superhero didn't. "He wouldn't be able to see!"
In Mystery Team, Jason claims to a genius master of disguise as part of his crime-solving trio. His disguises are so outrageously bad they can't fool a 3-year-old.
Jason poses as his father for a meeting with the guidance counselor which amounts to wearing a mustache and a deep voice. When the counselor says he knows who he is, Jason acts as if the man is an incredible genius to see through the act.
Jason poses as a Mexican plumber which means dressing up like an Old West bandit with a plunger to gain access to a building. In reality, there's a costume party taking place and the security guard just assumes this is a bad attempt to fit in there.
In Napoléon, the title character swaps hats with someone who bears a passing resemblance to him. Apparently, his hat is his most distinguishing feature, because nobody recognizes him and the other man is immediately mistaken for him.
In North By Northwest, Roger Thornhill briefly tries to avoid drawing suspicion while in Grand Central Terminal, simply by wearing a pair of sunglasses, but the staff aren't fooled for a minute. Arguably at that point, the sunglasses were probably the only thing he could find that had any chance of concealing his identity. Subverted later on when his newfound friend Eve Kendell helps him get off the train in Chicago by bribing one of the luggage handlers into loaning his uniform.
Orphan: First Kill: Subverted multiple ways. Leena is a strong physical match for the missing Esther, but her quirks and behavior, including her accent and attire, leave a lot to be desired, as does her lack of knowledge about the family she's "reunited" with. She still gets by, though... because the mother and brother have known she was an impostor the whole time and allowed her to stay to cover the skeletons in their closet regarding the murder of the real Esther.
In The Phantom of the Opera (2004), the Phantom uses a Don Juan disguise for "The Point of No Return." It just about works, but fails because Piangi (the real Don Juan) is noticeably heavier-set than the Phantom, has a different vocal timbre than him, and, as it turns out, is a little more dead.
The musical tries to make this slightly more plausible by using a heavy floor-length cloak with a deep cowl for the "Don Juan" costume. Some Phantom actors go the extra mile and even attempt to emulate Piangi's Italian accent for the duration of the song. It still doesn't explain why nobody notices the guy performing with Christine is suddenly about a hundred pounds lighter, though. Although it does add new meaning to why the Phantom's pre-production instructions for the Opera House for Don Juan Triumphant back in "Notes / Twisted Every Way" included a request that "Our Don Juan must lose some weight, it's not healthy in a man of Piangi's age."
A particularly baffling example occurs in an old Polish comedy Poszukiwany, Poszukiwana ("Wanted" in masculine and feminine forms, respectively), where the protagonist, accused of art robbery, has to prove himself innocent while disguised as a woman. The thing is, 1) he doesn't wear any makeup at all, 2) he uses his normal voice all the time, 3) he doesn't fill his flat chest with any fake cleavage, not to mention that 4) his clothes and hairstyle are very outdated even for 1970s Poland. He basically looks like a man wearing woman's clothes and a wig, and yet somehow everyone around falls for it. In one example particularly, a guy he works for as a house help walks in on him shaving, without any disguise, in male pyjamas... and all he has to do is to quickly put on his wig and cover his stubble with a towel, explaining that he has a toothache.
The Princess Bride: Despite being his true love, Buttercup can't figure out who the Dread Pirate Roberts is based on the fact that he wears a Zorro mask and hair wrap. She's also blindfolded when they first meet and has plenty of time to listen to his voice before looking at him. Justified because up to this point Buttercup believed the man in question was dead, and the Dread Pirate Roberts' sharp and authoritarian tone is very different from the soft and loving words he had used before.
Prom Night (2008): Fenton disguises himself by shaving his beard and wearing a baseball cap. The police are stupid enough to fall for it, though one of his former students does recognize him.
Lampshaded in Red Notice when Gal Gadot's character feigns surprise that it is Dwayne Johnson behind the masquerade mask at a masked ball.
The Rocky Horror Picture Show: Dr. Frank. N. Furter fools both Brad and Janet with his paper thin disguises, first as Brad to seduce Janet and then the other way around, and all he's wearing for a disguise are glasses and a wig for Brad and a wig for Janet. Then again, it's dark in both of their rooms and he seems to be able to imitate their voices perfectly.
Scooby-Doo: Big dogs aren't allowed on the plane, so Shaggy disguises Scooby as "Grandma". Daphne and Velma say that nobody will fall for that...and then Fred falls for it. According to Velma's novelization, everyone on the plane was fooled.
In Scooby-Doo: Monsters Unleashed, Shaggy and Scooby infiltrate the Faux Ghost disguised as "Shizzy Mcreepy" and "S.D Mcrawley" respectively; amazingly, it works...until Scooby's afro falls off.
In The Seeker, the Black Rider spends most of the film disguised as an extremely goofy country doctor with huge glasses and a tweed suit.
In Sesame Street Presents: Follow That Bird: Big Bird is kidnapped by the Sleaze brothers to use as an attraction for their circus. To prevent people from recognizing the missing Big Bird, they paint him blue and call him the "Bluebird of Happiness". Despite this, the Sesame Street residents recognize him regardless.
In Seven (1979), Drew walks out of the hotel past Skater, who is looking for him, in a disguise consisting of a badly fitting wig, powder in his moustache, and glasses.
Two female soccer players in Shaolin Soccer disguise themselves as men by sporting a fake mustache and goatee and talking in a deeper voice.
In She's the Man, it's fairly obvious when twins Viola and Sebastian (played by Amanda Bynes and James Kirk) are on screen together no one could possibly confuse them for the same person. However, it is lampshaded and justified in the beginning because no one at the school had seen Sebastian before. But later on, it becomes less plausible.
In Sky High (2005), The Commander almost only differs from Steve Stronghold by the glasses the latter wears, as Layla points out.
This trope gradually came into play for the 1972 film adaptation of Sleuth. The young Michael Caine's "Inspector Doppler" disguise was genuinely convincing to audiences forty years ago, and resulted in an astonishing reveal moment. But to current audiences sitting down for a re-watch, the fake inspector looks uncannily like a present-day Michael Caine, so the surprise has been retroactively spoiled.
In the Star Wars Prequel Trilogy, Chancellor Palpatine doesn't do much more than wear dark robes and speak in a raspier voice to disguise his identity, in spite of being a public figure. (Of course, one thing that helped was, until Palpatine was revealed as a Sith Lord, very few people knew that "Darth Sidious" existed. Only a few of his minions and the leadership of the Separation Forces knew about him, and other than Darth Maul and Count Dooku — first probably knowing about his dual-identity and the second certainly knowing — he only communicated with them via a hologram, which blurred his image and helped hide his identity.)
A Deleted Scene from Revenge of the Sith has Clone Troopers dress up in Jedi robes in an attempt to ambush Yoda and Obi-Wan when they return to the Jedi temple. It's not a bad plan for getting within blaster range, but the Clones actually walk right up to Yoda and try to hold a conversation with him pretending to be Jedi, seemingly without realizing that they all have the exact same face and voice that any Jedi who's fought in the Clone Wars would immediately recognize. Their plan fails horribly and Obi-Wan even notes with exasperation that "You clones make terrible Jedi." The silliness of this is probably why it's a deleted scene.
Thoroughly mocked in The Suicide Squad. When it's pointed out that Nanaue, a walking talking great white shark, would not be able to walk around a nightclub undetected, he claims he'll use a fake mustache as a disguise, earning him plenty of derision. It gets worse when he attempts to show off his disguise — which is just him sticking his finger over his mouth to imitate a mustache.
Bloodsport: You still look exactly like yourself.
Peacemaker: Worst fake mustache I've ever seen.
Bloodsport: And if you had fooled us, we'd have to kill you. Shark-shaped bloke with a mustache creeping up on us like that...
In the live-action version of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1990), the turtles wear trench coats and fedoras when walking around the city. Even though they're worn at night, these disguises do nothing to hide their bulbous noses, bulky shells, or the fact that they're far more massive than most humans. This is even lampshaded when Raphael rolls over the hood of a taxi cab.
Passenger: What the hell was that?!
Cab Driver: Looked like sort of a big turtle, in a trench coat.
In Thanks Killing, Turkie disguises himself with a pair of groucho glasses, and later, by wearing his victim's face as a mask. Neither should do much to hide the fact that he's a talking turkey, but the main characters are dumb enough that it works anyway.
This trope was quite commonplace in the short films of The Three Stooges. In one, the boys end up cooking/catering at a party for a judge who wants to send them up the river. Moe: "Oh, he'll never recognize us in these outfits!" (Apparently, just wearing a white jacket and chef's hat renders you totally unrecognizable.) In another Western-themed short, Curly masquerades as a Justice of the Peace, but is not recognized by Christine McIntyre until he lifts the tiny (and I mean tiny) little toupee off his head, points at his face, and mugs.
In Velvet Goldmine blue-haired rock star Brian Slade turns up to a concert in a "disguise" consisting of a large hat and coat. Although his ex-wife reveals that she recognised him, and public opinion towards him had already soured somewhat, it seems a bit odd that no one bats an eyelid at his appearance, given that he is still very famous, and very poorly disguised◊.
In What's Up, Doc?? one of the characters attempts to disguise himself by wearing a fake mustache. Not only that, but it's upside-down. The main characters seem to realize who he is, though.
The titular heroine and her sidekick from the Shaw Brothers film, My Young Auntie, managed to disguise themselves as Westerners - specifically, Caucasian - by putting on blonde wigs and western suits, despite being played by two Hong Kong actors. It gets really jarring when the sidekick character managed to fool his own father.
In Zookeeper, Griffin (Kevin James) and Bernie the gorilla (voiced by Nick Nolte) sneak out of the zoo and go to a TGI Friday's (It Makes Sense in Context). How is it pulled off? Griffin simply has Bernie wear a shirt and they pretend to have come from a costume party. Works like a charm.
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